The Movie Club: “Faces”

We’ll inaugurate The Movie Club with John Cassavetes’s “Faces,” from 1968, co-starring the director’s wife, Gena Rowlands; it’s a vision of a collapsing marriage which, as much for its style as for its content, remains as challenging and fascinating as ever. It was recently released on DVD in a two-disk set from Criterion; the extras detail the difficulties that Cassavetes, who self-financed the film, had in completing it. (It’s available from Netflix, and from Amazon, if you’d like to buy it.)

We’ll start the conversation on Monday, April 20th, with general discussions of the film, and move on to close viewings of scenes and also continue with other particular issues that come up.

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